The
Fall
2014 issue of Presente, the newspaper of the
movement to close the School of the Americas, is
now available for download!
Please help us spread the word and forward this
email with the pdf
version of Presente to your networks: 
Click
here to download the Spring 2014 issue of
Presente.
The Fall issue contains mobilizing information for
the 25th November
Vigil at the gates of Fort Benning,
Georgia (Nov.
21-23, 2014) and also focuses on
recent developments in Latin America and within
the SOA Watch movement:
- Analysis about the "Roots of Migration"
within US foreign policy
- 2014 SOA Watch Youth Encuentro in Latin
America
- Street Art to Close the SOA in Washington,
DC
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The centerfold of this issue features a beautiful
and very intricate poster that was created by MasPaz,
a DC based artist. The poster depicts SOA
repression in Latin America, people resisting and
fleeing, the militarization of the US/Mexico
border, and the protest in front of Fort Benning,
Georgia, where the killers continue to be trained
for the Pentagon's dirty work in Latin America. For
more information about the artists who have
contributed their work to the movement, visit SOAW.org/artists
¡Presente! literally means "here" or
"present" in Spanish. There is a long tradition
in Latin American movements for justice of
invoking the memory of those who have lost their
lives in the struggle. It is used in the ritual
at the gates of Fort Benning, Georgia, when we
remember those who suffered and were martyred by
the graduates of the School of the Americas. We
pronounce their names and bring their spirits
and witness before us as we respond: ¡Presente!
You are here with us, you are not forgotten, and
we continue the struggle in your name.
Calling out the names of those killed by
politically repressive regimes has a long
tradition in Latin America. At the funeral of
Pablo Neruda on September 25, 1973 in Chile,
Hernán Loyala reports that mourners responded
with "Presente" to the shouting out of Neruda's
name, as well as that of Salvador Allende, the
recently deposed (and killed) president. This
was the first public act of protest against the
14-day-old regime of Augusto Pinochet.
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